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Started by Admiral Yi, July 22, 2009, 03:15:40 PM

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Threviel

#285
August 05, 2009, 08:37:57 AM
Quote from: Malthus on August 05, 2009, 08:11:01 AM
Okay ... the first general of the two was famous for having an overbearing wife who was a reformed "actress".

That should give the game away ...

I would have Guessed Belisarius for the first, but wasn't it Justinian that had the reformed actress wife?

Caliga

#286
August 05, 2009, 08:41:00 AM
:yes:

Justinian didn't do the Byzantine reconquest of Italy, Belisarius (and I think Narses?) did.
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Malthus

#287
August 05, 2009, 08:42:17 AM
Quote from: Threviel on August 05, 2009, 08:37:57 AM
Quote from: Malthus on August 05, 2009, 08:11:01 AM
Okay ... the first general of the two was famous for having an overbearing wife who was a reformed "actress".

That should give the game away ...

I would have Guessed Belisarius for the first, but wasn't it Justinian that had the reformed actress wife?

Belisarius is correct - his wife Antonia was a reformed actress & a personal best buddy of Theodora (they met in their "acting" days).
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Ed Anger

#288
August 05, 2009, 08:45:54 AM
Quote from: Caliga on August 05, 2009, 08:41:00 AM
:yes:

Justinian didn't do the Byzantine reconquest of Italy, Belisarius (and I think Narses?) did.

Narses relieved Belisarius after Justinian got nervous.

The ostrogoths did offer Belisarius the western imperial crown.
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Caliga

#289
August 05, 2009, 08:47:27 AM
Oh yeah, I forgot.

Anyway, that makes the second conquest circa 1465.
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Threviel

#290
August 05, 2009, 11:01:33 AM
Somewhat too late, but emperor Charles after the sack of Rome 1527?

Malthus

#291
August 05, 2009, 11:29:47 AM
Quote from: Threviel on August 05, 2009, 11:01:33 AM
Somewhat too late, but emperor Charles after the sack of Rome 1527?

Nope, earlier than that ...
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Grey Fox

#292
August 05, 2009, 12:15:02 PM
Who ever was Louis the great's general?
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PDH

#293
August 05, 2009, 12:20:16 PM
Prolly someone like Charles of Anjou, they were always running around claiming southern Italy.
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Caliga

#294
August 05, 2009, 12:22:25 PM
Hmmm... yeah, probably an Angevin but I think Charles was an inheriter, not a fighter.

Rene d'Anjou?
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Kleves

#295
August 15, 2009, 07:19:09 PM
New, somewhat better question: Who was the first person since the 1600's to hold both an active military commision and a cabinet position in the British government?
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The Brain

#296
August 15, 2009, 07:22:14 PM
Churchill. One or the other.
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Kleves

#297
August 15, 2009, 07:29:04 PM
Churchill's not who I was thinking of. Is First Lord of the Admiralty a cabinet position?
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The Brain

#298
August 15, 2009, 07:31:36 PM
Quote from: Kleves on August 15, 2009, 07:29:04 PM
Churchill's not who I was thinking of. Is First Lord of the Admiralty a cabinet position?

Is the Pope the Antichrist (non-rhetorical)?
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Eddie Teach

#299
August 15, 2009, 08:21:32 PM
Quote from: Kleves on August 15, 2009, 07:29:04 PM
Churchill's not who I was thinking of. Is First Lord of the Admiralty a cabinet position?

Does this mean Churchill came before whoever you're thinking of?
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